"Rotten Disciples"

Relapse

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Since the band's inception in 1996, Japanese death metal yakuza Coffins have carved out a long and fruitful career by out-Autopsying Autopsy. The Fleshland-- their first studio album since 2008's Buried Death-- is out July 9 on Relapse and features nine tracks' worth of their depraved, decaying strain of mutant death/doom. Not much has changed, save for a slightly cleaned-up production and a few sly flashes of melody. "Rotten Disciples" is classic Coffins, a guttural prayer dredged up from the bowels of Hell and graced with a murky, tortured doom riff and a colossal mid-song groove.